Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday during a visit to Singapore dodged question on whether her administration had made mistakes in its Afghanistan withdrawal, insisting they were focused on evacuation efforts and noting there would be plenty of time later on to analyze mistakes the US government made. And as she boarded the plane to…
Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , IT Risk Management Department Recently Received a ‘D’ Grade for Its Cybersecurity Defenses Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 23, 2021 Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefing reporters earlier this month (Source: State Department) The U.S. State Department reportedly recently sustained a cyber incident…
Kabul airport has become the epicentre of the crisis in Afghanistan, with many thousands seeking to flee the country after the Taliban swept to power last week. The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet witnesses the atmosphere on the tarmac as men, women and children are evacuated from their homeland.
CISA Warns Organizations of ProxyShell Attacks on Exchange Servers | IT Security News 23. August 2021 This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek RSS Feed The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over the weekend issued an alert to warn of malicious actors actively exploiting the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities named ProxyShell. read…
A leading campaigner for women’s rights in Afghanistan was evacuated from Kabul last week, after going into hiding.
Governance & Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response , IT Risk Management Department Recently Received a ‘D’ Grade for Its Cybersecurity Defenses Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • August 23, 2021 Secretary of State Antony Blinken briefing reporters earlier this month (Source: State Department) The U.S. State Department reportedly recently sustained a cyber incident…
Armed forces minister James Heappey has said that British soldiers in Afghanistan are facing “extraordinary circumstances” at Kabul airport. UK troops were deployed to Kabul airport to aid the evacuation of people from the country, following the Taliban’s total takeover of Afghanistan. Mr Heappey told the BBC that while soldiers are helping with the evacuation,…
ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters since 2017. “The adoption of ShadowPad significantly reduces the costs of development and maintenance for threat actors,” SentinelOne researchers Yi-Jhen Hsieh and Joey Chen said in a detailed…
The Taliban say they will not extend the deadline for Western forces to leave Afghanistan. A spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, told the BBC’s Yalda Hakim that the 31 August was a red line and that any extension would be a “clear violation” of the Doha agreement between the United States and the Taliban. He said that…
E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News 23. August 2021 This article has been indexed from E Hacking News – Latest Hacker News and IT Security News According to a Fox News correspondent, the US State Department was hit by a cyberattack, and the Department of Defense Cyber Command was…
